*Powerballs* for Fingers, Wrist & Forearm muscles

[xpoint9]

Hello

I'm thinking of purchasing one of these powerballs but I'm still unsure about which one to get, since they offer many types of them. If anyone on RFD has them please post your experience with these powerballs

for those of you who don't know what these are, here a little video

And also are these available locally? if so what store usually carries these?

thanks

[xpoint9]

just placed an order for a blue neon powerball. I used 'awful' code for a 20% discount. Total came to $47.34US incl. shipping

[Spor 13]

That looks cool..I really wonder how effective it is versus wrist curls. I was watching some other videos of it, in particular the world record ones, and I couldn't stop laughing. Some serious jerkin' going on there

[Stock R]

They sell one on DX for $8.

[ace05]

dx?

[xpoint9]

dx?

deal extreme.

but those are knock offs though.

[Stock R]

dx?

You don't surf RFD enough.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1265

[xpoint9]

after doing some reading last night. I am pretty happy to have invested in this product. Lots of good stories. My wrists give up before my arms when doing push ups or chin ups. So This will take care of that problem.

[Rudee]

Wrists/forearms and calf muscles are the most difficult muscles in the body to develop if you are not blessed with good genetics in that department. If you don't have good genes all the wrist curls/powerball exercises are not going to do much. Might be good for mild rehab though. Muscle building no. Strength gain. minimal if any.

[poedua]

after doing some reading last night. I am pretty happy to have invested in this product. Lots of good stories. My wrists give up before my arms when doing push ups or chin ups. So This will take care of that problem.

Do these things work better than just doing things like forearm curls, reverse forearm curls, behind the back forearm curls etc. with free weights ?

[Mintmaster]

Wrists/forearms and calf muscles are the most difficult muscles in the body to develop if you are not blessed with good genetics in that department. If you don't have good genes all the wrist curls/powerball exercises are not going to do much. Might be good for mild rehab though. Muscle building no. Strength gain. minimal if any.

I'm also cursed with skinny forearms, but it doesn't mean that you can't get stronger. It seems like xpoint9's problem is strength/endurance.

xpoint9, I'm not sure why your wrists limit your pushups, but try doing them on your knuckles or by propping up your wrist with your thumb to make it straighter. As for chinups, try some hanging exercises, i.e. just hanging as long as you can with two hands and then one. If you really want to make it tough, put a plastic bag over the bar (two layers) so that you can't cheat with friction.

[xpoint9]

Do these things work better than just doing things like forearm curls, reverse forearm curls, behind the back forearm curls etc. with free weights ?

according to the stuff I read yes. I also came across a post made by 007craft in the p90x thread this morning. This post was made a while ago, but in it, he mentioned that he picked up one of these balls for the same reasons I did. To improve his wrists and forearms.

But for me it's even better since I had injured my wrist 3 months ago. The main purpose for this powerball is for rehabilitation, which is perfect and as an added bonus it gives same results that you would get from doing curls with free weights.

[dimlight]

They sell one on DX for $8.

where? here

[xdragus]

Do these things work better than just doing things like forearm curls, reverse forearm curls, behind the back forearm curls etc. with free weights ?

Powerball is probably best as a compliment to your gym excercises to keep your muscles actively learning.

[poedua]

Powerball is probably best as a compliment to your gym excercises to keep your muscles actively learning.

Well, if you're in the gym ( with access to a variety of barbells, dumbbells, &plates ), I don't think you'd have any pressing need for a Powerball.

Assuming your goal is simply to add some strength and mass to your forearms, doing things like forearm curls, reverse forearm curls, behind the back forearm curls etc. etc. with free weights should be more than sufficient I'd think - spending money on a Powerball would be somewhat redundant IMO.

However, if after doing a hard core ' gym based ' forearm routine for an extended period of time, your forearms still aren't big / strong enough - then I suppose you've got nothing to lose by going to a Powerball to see if it makes any difference.